Small Towns in Early Modern Europe

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Overview

Small towns comprised the great majority of urban settlements in pre-industrial Europe, but very little is known about them and their economic and social world. This is the first major work in English to give a pan-European perspective on the changing role of small towns from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Chapters by leading experts in the field look at small communities from the Hungarian Plain to western Ireland, from Sweden to Spain, and the general introduction provides a broad comparative perspective.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780521893749
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication date: 5/9/2002
  • Series: Themes in International Urban History Series , #3
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 330
  • Product dimensions: 5.98 (w) x 8.98 (h) x 0.75 (d)

Table of Contents

List of figures
List of tables
Notes on contributors
Series editorial preface
1 Introduction 1
2 The mainstays of the urban fringe: Norwegian small towns 1500-1800 22
3 Small towns in the periphery: population and economy of small towns in Sweden and Finland during the early modern period 50
4 Small towns in Eastern Central Europe 77
5 Small towns in England 1550-1850: national and regional population trends 90
6 The cultural role of small towns in England 1600-1800 121
7 Small towns in early modern Ireland 148
8 In search of the small town in early nineteenth-century France 166
9 Small towns in early modern Germany: the case of Hesse 1500-1800 184
10 Demography and hierarchy: the small towns and the urban network in sixteenth-century Flanders 206
11 Domestic demand and urbanisation in the eighteenth century: demographic and functional evidence for small towns of Brabant 229
12 The small towns of Northern Italy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: an overview 250
13 Cities, towns and small towns in Castile, 1500-1800 271
Select bibliography 295
Index 302
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